Toothless buckle.



PATENTED OCT. l0, 1905.

M. BARABASZ. TOOTHLBSS BUCKLE. APPLICATION .FILED APR.12.1905.

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lNIlECZYSLAiV BARABASZ, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF TWO- SIXTHS TO AUGUST F. P. STENZY AND ON E-S IXTH TO STEPHANIA BARA- BASZ, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

TOOTHLESS BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oet. 10, 1905.

Application filed April l2, 1905. Serial No. 255,089.

Be it known that l, MrnoZYsLAw BARABASZ, a citizen of the United States, residing` at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toothless Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in suspender-buckles,and has for its object to provide a buckle of improved construction which shall be formed from a single piece of metal and without teeth and having a plurality of cross-bars which reinforce the buckle in a crosswise direction and at the same time afford a curved surface around which the suspender-strap may pass with only suflicient friction to prevent slipping, and thus enable the buckle to be easily adjusted on the strap without injury to the latter.

Figure l illustrates a side or face View of the buckle attached to a suspender -strap Fig. Q illustrates a sectional view of the buckle with the strap or web fed therethrough to forni a loop. Fig'. 3 illustrates a fiat side view of the detached buckle. Fig. 4 illustrates an enlarged sectional view of the buckle to clearly show the construction of the cross-bars, and Fig. 5 shows an edge view of the same.

Referring' to the drawings, it will be seen that the buckle is stamped or formed from a single plate and comprises a metal plate which is curved in a lengthwise direction and having' two side or end bars b, a straight cross-bar c, connecting the side bars at one end, and a curved cross-bar d, which `also connects the side bars at the opposite end. This latter cross-bar is arched or curved in a longitudinal direction, so as to fit close against the wearer and also for the purpose of forming a curved recess d, through which the web or strap may pass freely and without undue friction when adjusting' the buckle. Adjacent the cross-bar (l, which is the top bar, the plate is provided with a cross-bar g, and the lower side of the cross-bar d is provided with an inwardly-projecting stationary tongue f, whose edge f is straight as compared to the longitudinal arch or bend in said cross-bar (l, as will clearly be seen in Fig. 5. Below the slot e the buckle is provided with a cross-bar g, which connects the two side or end bars and in cross-section this bar g is curved outwardly, the metal being bent or forced outwardly at g from the inner concave side of the buckleplate. This curved cross-barfor1ns a smooth rounded surface around which the web a. may pass without injury. Below the rounded crossbar 7 the buckle is provided with a tubular cross-bar 71., which has a fiat outer surface /L' and a convex inner surface z?, which is formed by bending the metal from opposite edges of the bar /1y backwardl y toward the concave side of the buckle and abutting said edges at the inner side of the buckle, as can be plainly seen in Fig. 4. By the formation of this tubular bar L the buckle will have slots 'i and j at opposite sides of said tubular bar.

In attaching' the buckle to the strap or web a the end a of the strap is passed through the lower-most slot j from the inner concave side of the buckle and then turned down on the outer convex side of the buckle and over the lower cross-bar c, and said end is then secured, preferably by stitches 1, to the strap 1 below the buckle. A loop l is then formed by the strap hanging pendently from the lower bar c, and the strap then extends upwardly from said loop and passes from the outer convex side of the buckle through the slot/'and around the convex surface 7a2 of the tubular bar t, then through the slot zi again to the outer side of the buckle and around the outwardly-curved side g' of the bar g, then through the slot e again to the inner concave side of the buckle and around the edgef of the stationary tongue j', and finally up through the recess in the bar (Z, formed by the curvature of said bar, and the upper end (f of the strap may then pass over the shoulder of the wearer.

lt will be understood that any strain or pull on the upper end if of the strap while the loop l is held stationary will simply cause the edge f of the stationary tongue to bite into the strap, while below the tongue the strap will pass around the convex bar g and the tubular bar 7L and be held sufliciently by friction to prevent slipping.

Having' thus fully described my invention, what l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A buckle of a single piece of metal coinprising a plate having parallel side bars and a cross-bar at each end of said side bars and the upper cross-bar having a stationary tongue which projects inwardly from its lower edge and said buckle also having a cross-bar adja- IOO cent said tongue which has a convex outer surface and a tubular cross-bar adjacent the lower cross-bar which has a convex inner Surface.

2. A buckle of e single piece of metal cornprising a plate having parallel side bars and a; crossbar connecting the side bars at each end of the latter and the lower side'of the upper cross-bar having a Stationary tongue which projects toward the inner side of the buckle,

IO said buckle also having a cross-ber which is convex on its outer side and a tubular cross- MIEGZYSLAW BARABASZ.

Witnesses:

CHARLES B. MANN, Jr., G. FERDINAND Voer. 

